Multiple criteria assessment of sustainability programs in the textile industry

Autor(es)

Lombardi Netto, Antonio ^[1] ; Salomon, Valerio A. P. ^[1] ; Ortiz-Barrios, Miguel A. ^[2] ; Florek-Paszkowska, Anna K. ^[3] ; Petrillo, Antonella ^[4] ; De Oliveira, Otavio J. ^[1]

Afiliação do(s) autor(es)

^[1] Univ Estadual Julio de Mesquita Filho, Dept Prod, Ave Ariberto P Cunha 333, BR-12516410 Guaratingueta, SP - Brazil

^[2] Univ Costa CUC, Dept Ind Management Agroind & Operat, 58th St 55-66, Barranquilla - Colombia

^[3] Urbanizac Los Alamos Monterr, Jiron Daniel Alomia Robles 125, Santiago De Surco 15023 - Peru

^[4] Univ Naples Parthenope, Engn Dept, Via Ammiraglio Ferdinando Acton 38, I-80133 Naples, NA - Italy

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: International Transactions in Operational Research; v. 28, n. 3 SEP 2020.
• Citações Web of Science: 0

Resumo

To survive in the long term, business needs to profit, controlling environmental impacts with social responsibility. Sustainability programs involve the integration of social and environmental issues in business models and organizational processes. The assessment of sustainability programs is a problem of multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA). This work presents applications of MCDA for the assessment of sustainability programs in the textile industry. Applied methods for MCDA are analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and the technique for the order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS). The reasons to apply AHP and TOPSIS include providing an assessment index, ranging from 0 to 1, and that the MCDA model is expected to have more criteria than alternatives. Therefore, an application of other methods, such as data envelopment analysis, could be prejudiced. Concepts from the triple bottom line, economic, social as well as environmental criteria were inserted in the proposed model. Sustainability programs of six leading companies from the Brazilian textile industry were evaluated. The main finding of the research is that AHP and TOPSIS resulted in similar evaluations for sustainability programs. Both methods resulted in the same rank of alternatives. However, with TOPSIS, companies' sustainability indices were more disperse, varying from 0.10 to 0.92 against a range from 0.23 to 0.69 with AHP. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 17/22963-6 - Solução de problemas discretos com aplicação de métodos de decisão multicritério
• Beneficiário: Valério Antonio Pamplona Salomon
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Regular